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Brief: This article introduces Liu Yan’s key financial reforms in the mid‑Tang Dynasty after the An‑Shi Rebellion. He improved disaster relief, reformed the salt monopoly to boost state revenue without overburdening the people, and restored the Grand Canal transport system to secure grain supplies for Chang’an. His pragmatic measures stabilized the crisis‑stricken empire and…
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Brief: This article profiles Li Bai and Du Fu, the two greatest poets of Tang Dynasty. It covers their contrasting styles – Li Bai as the free-spirited “Poet Immortal” and Du Fu as the compassionate “Poet Sage” – their lives through the An-Shi Rebellion, their brief friendship, and their tragic later years. Their works…
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Brief: This article explores the outbreak of the An-Shi Rebellion, which ended the Tang Dynasty’s golden age. It traces the rise of the corrupt Yang clan under Yang Guifei, the ambition of the powerful general An Lushan, and his bitter conflict with Yang Guozhong. The rebellion erupted in 755, and a fatal order at…